UD team awarded $1 million Keck Foundation grant for novel research on light

They want to design a new kind of semiconductor nanostructure that will act like a ratchet. It will absorb two red photo…

Light that is polarized clockwise causes current to flow in one direction, while counter-clockwise polarized light makes…

Many cloaks are lossy because they are made with metal particles, which absorb light. The researchers report that one of…

Absorbers are completely transparent at non-operational frequencies.

The researchers at the Aalto University Department of Radio Science and Engineering have demonstrated the first realizat…

Layered semiconducting black arsenic phosphorus as an alternative to silicon

With an arsenic concentration of 83 percent the material exhibits an extremely small band gap of only 0.15 electron volt…

Light becomes trapped as it orbits within tiny granules of a crystalline material that has increasingly intrigued physic…

The latest release, TracePro v7.6, includes the capability to create repetitive features on curved surfaces, new diffuse…

Particles of light can, in principle, carry and deliver an unlimited amount of information between two remote places. Th…

Tight collaboration with leading customers yields a state of the art standalone product for the most challenging 3D wafer fabrication processes

With its unique optical technology, combining high precision, superior accuracy and new channels of information, the Hel…

Materials seen as promising for optoelectronics and thermoelectric devices finally yield their secrets.

Materials seen as promising for optoelectronics and thermoelectric devices finally yield their secrets

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created a nanoscale device that can emit light as powerfully as an object…

How molecular vibrations make photosynthesis efficient

The studied artificial light harvester is a supramolecule, consisting of hundreds of thousands of light absorbing molecu…

Researchers at EPFL and ICFO have developed a sensor made from graphene to detect molecules such as proteins and drugs.…

Imaging structure and response of atoms and molecules with powerful mid infrared electric fields in PRX

Time-resolved imaging of atoms and molecules is critical for understanding chemical reactions. To acquire such images, r…

Berkeley Lab researchers’ novel diffraction spectroscopy technique will provide insight to chemical processes at important battery interface.

Researchers have developed a new technique that enables sensitive and specific detection of molecules at the electrode

With its touch screen operation and icon driven menus, the new Electro Optics Analysis software from Taylor Hobson is ma…

High Precision Alignment of a Lens in a Cell in 5 Degrees of Freedom

The system automatically aligns a lens within a cell in 5 degrees of freedom so that the optical axis of the lens coinci…

Supercomputer simulations pave the way towards compact terahertz sources with tunable wavelengths

In Physical Review Letters, scientists present a new concept that uses short-pulse lasers to expand the capabilities of…

A theoretical trick allows scientists to describe quantum states of thousands of atoms. If standard methods were used, all storage capacity in the world would not be enough to do this.

For a long time, quantum experiments were only carried out with a small number of particles. Even the behaviour of singl…

Researchers explore ultrafast control of magnetism across interfaces

A new study discovers how the sudden excitation of lattice vibrations in a crystal can trigger a change of the magnetic…